【School】GLP WinterSchool 2017
International winter school 2017
Title: Land science under changing demography
Outline:
This intensive four-day course focuses on global to local environmental and social issues caused by changes in land systems. Our globe faces big challenges of rapid increase in population, which is negative for developing sustainable societies. But at the same time, population decrease occurs in many countries such as Japan and those in Europe. The decreasing population gives difficult practice of land management. These two opposite trends require different knowledge, technologies, approaches and policies to address and transform our society to more sustainable and resilient systems. Through lectures, discussion, presentation, and work sessions, students will gain basic theory and practical methodology to solve these issues. This course is organized by Global Land Programme (GLP) Japan Nodal Office based in Hokkaido University. GLP is an international community of scientists and practitioners trying to foster the study of land systems and the co-design of solutions for global sustainability.
Topics and lecturers
Forest Ecosystem: Lecturer; Takashi Kohyama (Hokkaido Univ.)
Biodiversity: Lecturer Masae Ishihara (Kyoto Univ.)
Land management: Lecturer Teiji Watanabe (Hokkaido Univ.)
Ecosystem services: Lecturer Hideaki Shibata (Hokkaido Univ.)
Ecosystem assessment Lecturer Masami Kaneko (Rakuno Gakuen Univ.)
GIS & Remote sensing Lecturer Yong-Seuk Park (Rakuno Gakuen Univ.)
Target students
Master's/PhD students. English is used throughout.
Registration is required
Maximum 20 students.
Contact
The Person in charge : Masae Ishihara, GLP Japan Nodal Office.
E-mail : ishihara.masae.8w[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp ( Replace [at] with @ )
The schedule
21st Feb:
09:00-09:30 Teiji Watanabe (Hokkaido Univ.) and others: Briefing 09:30-11:10 Self-intorduction by participating students 11:30-12:45 Teiji Watanabe (Hokkaido Univ.): International address to land science 14:00-17:00 Group discussion and presentation 17:30-19:00 Welcome party (At Graduate School of Environmental Science)
22nd Feb: 08:45-10:00 Masae Ishihara (Kyoto Univ.): Changing biodiversity under human impacts 10:15-11:30 Hideaki Shibata (Hokkaido Univ.): Comparison of ecosystem functions and services under changing land-use 11:45-13:00 Takashi Kohyama (Hokkaido Univ.): Forest ecosystems quantified by storage, productivity and complexity. 14:00-16:00 Group discussion and presentation
23rd Feb: 09:00-17:00 Yong-SeulPark (Rakuno Gakuen Univ.): Masami Kaneko (Rakuno Gakuen Univ.): A lecture and practice of GIS
24th Feb: 09:00-10:15 Teiji Watanabe (Hokkaido Univ.): Land management in protected areas under changing demography 10:30-12:00 Probably presentations by some students 13:00-16:00 Group discussion and presentation 16:00-17:00 Closing (presenting the certificate of participation)
A poster of this program can be downloaded from below link. https://goo.gl/pTyTNQ
